Stories
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Birmingham Medical Institute
Date: 1949-1994, n.dReference: GP/62/C.1Part of: Dr Brian Gough (1909-1999), Birmingham GP and anaesthetist- Archives and manuscripts
Birmingham Medical Institute
Date: Mar 1958Reference: PP/SHF/D/8/12Part of: Foulkes, Siegmund Heinrich (1898-1976) and Elizabeth Therese Fanny (née Marx) (1918-2004)- Archives and manuscripts
Health and work (Samson Gamgee Lecture, Birmingham Medical Institute)
Date: 1979Reference: GC/201/A/1/33Part of: Godber, Sir George- Archives and manuscripts
Birmingham Medical Group Symposia List
Date: 1975-1978Reference: SA/IME/F/13/1Part of: Institute of Medical Ethics- Books
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Birmingham & Midland Institute : address delivered at the annual meeting of members, 10th January, 1876 / by J. Thackray Bunce.
Bunce, John Thackray, 1828-1899.Date: 1876